A team of scientists from the Institute of Neuroscience of the UCLouvain (IoNS), Prof. André Mouraux and Dounia Mulders , FNRS research fellow, together with their colleagues Ben Seymour (University of Oxford, UK) and Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge, UK) are trying to understand these prediction mechanisms.
Does a stronger painful stimulus lead to a higher response? "Not systematically, the brain does not carry out a simple passive reading of the pain", notes Dounia Mulders, because the expectations of the individual affect what he perceives. ...
